What is the difference between aquaculture and commercial culture?
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November’s Bytemarks Lunch visit to the McKinley aquaculture fish farm.
Question by Red: What is the difference between aquaculture and commercial culture?
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Aqua-culture is growing animals (fish, shell-fish etc) and plants (when it is called hydroponics) in water instead of on land or in soil.
Plants get most of their food from water and the air, the remaining nutrients are dissolved in water in the soil, so the soil isn’t really needed except to keep the plants from falling over.
Aqua-culture can be commercial, but I think when you say “commercial culture” you mean “conventional farming” which is growing plants in soil or rearing animals on land.
Aqua-culture includes “fish farming” which differs from fishing because with fishing there is no attempt to breed new fish to replace the ones caught, or to feed and care for the fish to make them healthier, bigger or more tasty. So fishing is like picking wild berries or hunting wild animals (ie taking what is already there naturally), whereas farming involves “cultivation” – rearing animals or growing crops.
Barry G
October 13, 2011 at 6:46 am